Creativity is a quality that most astrologers associate with Leo, the sign of this New Moon, and with its ruler, the Sun. Absolutely everyone is creative, with a mad desire to connect with a powerful and loving Source, although many people deny that they’re creative at all. But if you ask them to remember a situation in which they lost all track of time because they were doing … [Read more...]
Cancer New Moon Eclipse: Suffer the Little Children
I have always been a big fan of Liz Gilbert’s. Though I’ve yet to read her latest work, City of Girls, I’ve devoured everything else she has written, from Eat Pray Love to Big Magic. Maybe it’s because we’re both Cancerians, but I resonate strongly with the deeply feminine themes she so beautifully puts into words. So I took notice recently when she posted a message on … [Read more...]
Gemini New Moon: Stretch Your Mind
Jean Houston often took her dog on after-school walks down Park Avenue in New York City. One day, distracted by grief over her parents’ divorce, the 14-year-old girl accidentally knocked down a frail old gentleman. But he just laughed as she helped him to his feet, and thus began an extraordinary friendship. As she relates in her autobiography, A Mythic Life, Houston and the … [Read more...]
Taurus New Moon: The Electric Earth
It was a beautiful autumn morning in 1996 at Mike Reynolds’ headquarters outside Taos, New Mexico. I dipped my hands into the rich, brown mud and set a dollop atop a low wall. Smoothing it out with a trowel, I then nestled two soda bottles a few inches apart and layered them with more mud. Lost in the pleasant, repetitive work, I could dimly hear friendly banter from the other … [Read more...]
Aries New Moon: Hold Your Power
Recently, a friend and I visited Old Town here in San Diego to seek Zoltar’s counsel. He had disappeared from his former location, so a manhunt was required. But at last we found him, in the foyer of the Alamo restaurant. Jumping up and down like kids, we fed our dollar bills into the machine and received our fortunes. You may wonder why any self-respecting astrologer would … [Read more...]
